The Third Thing That Doesn't Work

Curing It Once and For All

Becoming angry and frustrated; arming myself with the assumption that finding the right neurologist, psychologist, psychiatrist or educational consultant will fix it all. Then campaigning to find that silver bullet - hitting hundreds of web-sites and signing up for studies or asking for references - until that bolus of desperate energy wanes. This sends no message to Isabel because the outcome is really no discernable action other than a signficant catharsis for me.

There is no silver bullet. All the amazing case studies of children with significant brain trauma that have developed compensatory skills are still not Isabel. The learnings are not transferrable.

Attending conferences where these amazing studies are presented generates a hopeful energy ("Things can be done. Things are being done. Isabel is not the worst case.") but in the end, it is just living with Isabel that matters. Isabel is not one of the amazing case studies on the Powerpoint slide.